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Books and Beyond : New Ways to Reach Readers
Books and Beyond is a book of big ideas and smart, useful strategies. Opitz, Ford, and Zbaracki suggest ways to model literate behaviors so that students come to understand that reading is not reserved for the classroom but permeates everything adults do...
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Breathing New Life into Book Clubs: A Practical Guide for Teachers
Sonja and Dana have both a confession and a challenge to teachers. Managing classroom book clubs can be hard. Real hard. But honestly, is there any better way to get students vested in reading? When book clubs work, don’t they create a...
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Bridges to Literacy: Learning from Reading Recovery
In 1984, Carol Lyons and Diane DeFord joined the team of Charlotte Huck and Gay Su Pinnell in a new venture: implementing Reading Recovery as a small pilot project in Columbus, Ohio. Ever since that time, they have been on a fascinating...
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Build Reading Fluency: Practice and Performance with Reader's Theater
Discover innovative ways to incorporate fluency practice into literacy instruction! This professional development resource provides teachers with engaging and practical strategies for bringing fluency instruction into daily reading routines. Build...
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Choosing to Read: Connecting Middle Schoolers to Books
“They aren’t going to read A Tale of Two Cities no matter how many times we assign it. Put Dickens away for a bit and try some books that will turn your students into real readers.” —Joan Schroeder Kindig What do we...
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Classroom Catalysts
15 Efficient Practices That Accelerate Readers’ Learning “Some learners need to make more than one academic year’s worth of growth in an academic year. We need instructional techniques that provide more bang for our buck and accelerate...
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Comprehending Math: Adapting Reading Strategies to Teach Mathematics, K-6
In Comprehending Math, Arthur Hyde (coauthor of the popular Best Practice) shows you how to adapt some of your favourite and most effective reading comprehension strategies to help your students with important mathematical concepts. Emphasizing problem...
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Comprehension Connections: Bridges to Strategic Reading
Inferring, questioning, determining importance. It’s not easy to explain these abstract reading strategies to elementary readers, yet knowing how they work and how to use them is an important first step to connecting with texts. Fortunately Tanny...
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Connecting Comprehension and Technology: Adapt and Extend Toolkit Practices
“Technology does not make teaching better, only teachers do that. However, technology can challenge us to reflect on and enrich our instruction in a variety of meaningful ways. We collaborated on this book to support teachers in active literacy...
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Content Literacy (Intermediate): Lessons and Texts for Comprehension Across the Curriculum
Written and designed to be included in the updated 2016 Second Edition, this new lesson book, Content Literacy, provides support for teaching comprehension across the curriculum including building knowledge and understanding. Once students have had...
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Do-able Differentiation: Varying Groups, Texts, and Supports to Reach Readers
Lots of books claim to make differentiated instruction possible in any classroom. Do-able Differentiation makes it practical for your classroom. And helps you meet the needs of your students. Instead of time-consuming jargon, Do-able Differentiation...